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Originally Posted by Chocaholic
...The FACT is that we are in a much different situation than anyone could have anticipated without the benefit of a crystal ball...
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That's absolutely just not true. I (and many others, including Dick Cheney back in '94)) could see this coming from a mile away. This WAS in fact predictable, but "they" (including Dick) packaged it up and sold it as a "walk in the park" to the populace wrapped up with a pretty "9/11" ribbon. What's worse is "knowing what they did", and Dick absolutely KNEW (I've seen the clips), they still mismanaged this fiasco from the beginning. I do agree on one thing however, what's done is done, and we can't just simply walk away, but we MUST leave eventually (but how?). IMO, as bad as Sadaam was, we have made a bad situation MUCH worse, and as bad as it is now (even with "surge" improvements) it simply will not get significantly better, EVER, as long as we are there...we ARE the problem now
. 9/11 may have changed "their justification" for going into Iraq, but it had no impact whatsoever on what the situation would be if "anti-Islamic fundamentalist" Sadaam was removed from power. He was the "lesser of two evils" all through the 80s when we backed him (against Iran), and nothing about 9/11 changed that. I don't have an answer...imo, there may not really be one. IMO as bad as 9/11 was, what has happened since is much worse, with no end in sight. I'm a republican btw, so save the liberal/Clinton bashing for someone else.